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It was social media and crowd-funding that saved the 16th Mumbai Film Festival this year. When Reliance’s contract as the main sponsor ended last year and no corporation stepped up to fill the breach, the cancellation of the festival was a real possibility.

This week two indie-budgeted thrillers without a single big name between them taught Hollywood a lesson it won’t soon forget. Ouija, the weekend’s highest grossing domestic film, turned a $5 million budget and a bit of nostalgia for the board game of its namesake into a minor economic miracle, quadrupling its original investment to earn $20 million in North America in its opening run.

In a city where superlatives are all too readily thrown about, Kirk Douglas is a true giant of cinema. He’s survived a helicopter crash, a stroke, and countless accidents in the times when he personally did death-defying movie stunts, rather than using a stunt double.

It has become a Hollywood truism that we are living in a much-lauded “Golden Era” of television. There is ample evidence that premium cable and now streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have made television the domain of engaging, authorial fiction that used to be the purview of adult drama in film.

Two years after playing the scalp collecting Nazi hunter Aldo Raine in Inglorious Basterds, Brad Pitt again demonstrated his Reich-busting credentials as he led this week’s number one film, Fury, to the head of the pack with a $23. 5 million domestic opening weekend.

MIPCOM, the biggest TV market in the world, took place in Cannes, France from October 13 to 16, 2014. Hundreds of production, distribution and selling companies had their stands or booths in the Palace of Festivals on the famous Croisette Boardwalk.

David Fincher’s Gone Girl stuck around to claim its second consecutive top finish in this weekend box office race. The David Fincher helmed picture fended off a handful of promising new releases, ending its encore run with a $26.

At least for one night Hollywood spoke Spanish. The ALMA Awards which honor the achievements of Latinos in Hollywood turned 15 celebrating the strides made in the industry.

Keira Knightly on the red carpetHundreds of screaming fans, some of whom had been waiting in the rain for 16 hours, welcomed Benedict Cumberbatch on the red carpet for the European premiere of The Imitation Game at the gala opening of this year's BFI London Film Festival. The Sherlock star plays computer pioneer Alan Turing in the wartime drama.

After three days of close sparring, David Fincher’s provocative adult drama Gone Girl edged out horror spinoff Annabelle to finish first on the domestic charts with a well earned$38 million. Based on Gillian Flynn’s bestselling 2012 book, this cerebral thriller pits husband and wife Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike against each other in a contest which dissects not only their relationship but also the institution of marriage itself as well the inflammatory nature of the media in the United States.